The cedar is wood.

From card: "0f bear claws and quills of eagles fastened to a band of moose hide. The claws are perforated at the tips and a cord is run through them holding them in order when the crown is worn. The quills are in three bunches forming unique rattle ornaments. Purchase Order #63457."

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888, PlL VI, FIG. 11, P. 260. LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENT CATALOGUE; FIG. 62, P.60. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993." Crossroads of Continents caption identifies as an iron ornament formed into bifurcated scrolls, and notes that his motif was popular on Athabaskan knife handles. FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABLE WITH CARD: "HAIR ORNAMENT.--MADE OF STEEL, HIGHLY POLISHED, AND INLAID WITH HALIOTIS SHELL. THIS FORM IS VERY ANCIENT AND VALUED AT ONE OR TWO SLAVES. WORN BY YOUNG GIRLS. TSIMSHIAN INDIANS (CHIMMESYAN STOCK), NASS R., B. C. 10,313. COLLECTED BY LIEUT. F. W. RING, U. S. A. [sic, this should be Lt. F. M. Ring]. LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993."

From 19th or early 20th century exhibit label with card: "Bracelet - Horn, inlaid with pearl shell, Haliotis kamschatkensis [i.e. abalone]. Nasses Indians, near Fort Simpson. Greatest diam. 2 1/2 ins. Least diam. 1 1/2 ins. British Columbia, 1870. Collected by Lieut. F. W.[sic, should be M.] Ring, U.S.A."

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888, PL. VI, FIG. 7, P. 260." FROM OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BRACELETS.---MADE OF COPPER AND INLAID WITH PIECES OF SHELL, HALIOTIS KAMSCHATKENSIS. NASSES [NASS] INDIANS, NEAR FORT SIMPSON. GREATEST DIAM., 2 3/4 INS. LEAST DIAM., 2 INS. FORT SIMPSON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, 1875. 20,637. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."